I’m gearing up to release the fourth installment in the Port Mason series, The Mayor. The manuscript is going through the final edits, the cover art is ready, and I’m itching to get this one out. I finished the final draft of The Mayor at the end of May, 2019, and soon got my editor to work…

My daughter is about to start driving. I can’t believe it. After her upcoming 15th birthday, I’m taking her to the DMV to get her learner’s permit. She’s already passed the classroom course and, ever since taking it, has pointed out everything I do wrong behind the wheel. Something about that seems familiar… I’m approaching…

I really do let too much time pass between blog posts. I’m told that frequent blogging helps increase my web presence, which theoretically helps book sales so in the interest of blatant self-promotion, here it goes. I’m hard at work on the fourth story in the Port Mason series, tentatively called The Mayor. There have…

I’ve never kept secret the fact that I was adopted as an infant. On the other hand I’ve never carried around a sign advertising it. It’s simply a fact of my life, one that I’ve known for as long as I can remember. There’s no great trauma attached to it. I treat the same as…

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I released the book on Tuesday, March 14. It’s been a  long and frequently frustrating journey with this one. Hope everyone enjoys. Here are the purchase links: Kindle https://www.amazon.com/Crosshairs-Port-Mason-Book-ebook/dp/B06XHRFP9Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489491479&sr=8-1&keywords=Robert+Gonko CreateSpace Print Edition https://www.createspace.com/6979705 Smashwords (eBook) https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/709976

It’s been a very long time since my last blog post. Over a year, in fact. Last time I posted a preview of my next novel, In The Crosshairs. I wish I hadn’t because that particular section of text is no longer in the novel. The book has been rewritten completely since then. Twice. Why…

Greetings, friends. A few days ago I finished the sixth draft of In The Crosshairs and thought this might be a good time to give you a sneak peek at the new book. I don’t have a target date for publication as there’s still a lot of work to be done, including a likely seventh…

I’m the first to admit that I can be overly sentimental. Today I had a real chance to indulge that tendency with a visit to Lincoln Land Community College, where I was a student from 1988-1990. We were there for my daughter, Josie. Her 5th grade class had entered a “Rube Goldberg” competition where the…

I’m told that it’s never too soon to start promoting a new novel so lets get the ball rolling for book three in the Port Mason series, Sniper. “The killing of a corrupt cop is the latest in a string of underworld-related murders in Port Mason, all the work of one person, the infamous Port…